However a breakdown of the statistics shows that the rate of decrease is far greater among white young people than black or ethnic minority children.
Between August 2007 and December 2010 the number of white children in custody dropped from 2,175 to 1,215, a decrease of 44.1 per cent.
Among black and ethnic minority children the decrease was 702 to 574, a drop of just 18.2 per cent.
Within this grouping the number of black children in custody fell by 16 per cent, the number of mixed heritage children in custody fell by 44 per cent and the number of Asian children in custody rose by 42 per cent.
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